{"id":651562,"date":"2026-05-05T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/651562\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:37:08","slug":"neon-acquires-jeff-nichols-king-snake-starring-margaret-qualley-michael-shannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/651562\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Acquires Jeff Nichols&#8217; &#8216;King Snake&#8217; Starring Margaret Qualley, Michael Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/neon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_neon\" data-tag=\"neon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neon<\/a> has taken U.S. rights to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeff-nichols\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeff-nichols\" data-tag=\"jeff-nichols\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Nichols<\/a>\u2018 next movie <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/king-snake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_king-snake\" data-tag=\"king-snake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Snake<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Southern gothic horror,\u00a0King Snake\u00a0follows a young couple (Margaret Qualley and Drew Starkey) who inherit an Arkansas farm where they face real-world problems and supernatural forces, battling physical and metaphysical demons while confronting the property\u2019s dark legacy. Michael Shannon also stars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilmNation Entertainment financed the film and is handling worldwide sales. Pic is produced by Nichols and his Tri-State Pictures partners Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sarah Green, in association with Range Media Partners. FilmNation\u2019s Stacey Snider and Glen Basner Executive Produce.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was negotiated by Neon and FilmNation Entertainment in cooperation with Range Media Partners on behalf of the filmmakers. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. nationwide. Production started this month in Arkansas.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Variety first had the news about King Snake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon has taken U.S. rights to Jeff Nichols\u2018 next movie King Snake. A Southern gothic horror,\u00a0King Snake\u00a0follows a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,150816,150817,344,17022],"class_list":["post-651562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-jeff-nichols","tag-king-snake","tag-movies","tag-neon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}